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Thursday, July 16, 2015

I am busily working on the basement clean out and making great progress, if I say so myself. As is always the case, it is never as bad as the walkway into the basement makes it look. In other words, stuff tends to pile up right at the entrance - I cleaned that out first and thought, "wow, I'm almost done!". I'm still taking the time to clean out every single bin, though, in order to cut down on what is really being stored, and setting it up in a way that it will function well.

The other huge project that I'm very behind on is our family memories or, scrapbooking. When the original Creative Memories closed two years ago, I lost all momentum because all of my supplies were form Creative Memories. I love their albums and pages. I have tried to find a new source - an easier and less expensive source to work with and because of that, my photos have just sat. Money is really, always a tough thing to budget when it comes to this hobby so I'm having to find a way to catch up without spending much.

I would really like to be back to the point of working on the previous months photos in the current month and yes, I was there once - for almost a whole year I was at that point! To do that, I have to work two ways. One, I have to start in August with working on this months photos. The best way to get current is to work on current stuff. I know it sounds odd but it is true. The second thing, is to do what I've started to do 100 times before, go back to the beginning and make sure that scrapbooks are complete; finish up pages; and move to the next album. I have a couple of years, yes, years, worth of digital pages that are done and ready to print. I have to start printing or print the photos and make regular photos - it might actually be less expensive to recreate each page then to print the hundreds of pages I have to print.

Here's my overall goals by December:
1) By the end of December I will have July-November 2015 pages completed.
2) By the end of December I will have gone through and completed every album that is currently on the shelf. This includes page protectors (which I can get from Hobby Lobby for next to nothing when they are on sale)
3) By the end of December I will have started the process of getting those two years of digital pages into books. Ultimately, I'd like to do one month . . a month. Printing or recreating - but that would mean by December I would have 5 months done.
4) By the end of December I will decide how to conquer 2016 photos - I'm throwing around the idea of trying Snapfish books. I could then sit at night at the computer and create pages each time I have photos. Then print the book every . . .3 months or 4 months? I've even considered this idea for those digital pages - plugging them into a book and printing.

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My Family

My husband Darryl and I have been married since August 2001. We met on-line through a site called Christian Matchmaker.com on Oct. 31, 2000, met in person on December 16, 2000, were engaged on March 18, 2001 and Married August 4, 2001. When you are "old" you know what you are looking for!! We were married for 7 years before being blessed with baby #1, Josh in October 2009 and than baby #2, Nate, who in December 2010. Our family is currently rounded out by our sweet and crazy cat Harley! That's us :-)